Stupid Foley Tricks
December 3, 2003
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Posted by Aubrey Turner
Somebody needs to tell the foley artists on TV these days that Glocks don’t have a hammer that can be pulled back. The ones working on tonight’s episode of Law & Order added the sound of a hammer being drawn back when one of the detectives drew his Glock.
Of course it could be worse—like those old westerns where every single shot had a ricochet sound.
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They do the same thing with engine sounds. For instance, I saw The Italian Job this summer. There are opposed-twin-engined BMW bikes riding around with the shreik of a high-revving inline-four. They do sound great in the movie, but not a bit like a BMW Boxer.
I rented that movie about a month ago. I thought those bikes didn’t sound quite right, but I wasn’t sure why.
Not only a ricochet sound but they also had Colt SAAs with 50 round cylinders right?
Yeah, and after pointing a gun @ someone for 2 min of dialog, they then decide to rack the slide on an empty chamber. What the hell, if John Wayne could fight the civil war with a Model 1873 Colt & a Model 1892 Winchester they can do anything I guess.
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Hey, let’s not forget the sound of squealing tires, when the car is turning the corner on a DIRT ROAD…
And does anyone have a count of the number of shots fired by Powers Boothe before he shoots the town marshal in “Tombstone”? I made it 17… out of two six-shooters.
Oh yeah, and on the topic of cars I remember in the 80’s that every single car had chirping brakes (and they sounded like the exact same set of brakes on every car).
In The Bourne Identity, one of the programmed killers who came to take out Bourne at his Paris apartment was carrying a full-auto toy—-an AR-15 cobbled into a pistol, IIRC.
When the killer shot the pistol empty, the serial bang-bangs became serial click-clicks.